Was hoping to get some peoples opinions on the hubs and what the working conditions are like. I’ve heard sweatshop/prison is the most accurate way to describe them. Thoughts?
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Why aren’t all the jobs in the hubs yet? They should just do it and get it over with. It’s been dragging on long enough.
Lmao at the guy commenting about the Phoenix hub "it's hot as balls and those fukin kids with their scooters! Get off off my lawn!"
Constant fake news about the Atlanta Hub. That story of people getting caught humping has been around since they opened the Dallas Hub. No place is perfect.....all have their good and bad!
Constant fake news a out the Atlanta Hub. That story of people getting catch humping has been around since they opened the Dallas Hub. No place is perfect.....all have their good and bad!
Claims in the ATL - I've met some really nice people. They are here to earn a living. ATL people need the salary and beneifts just like the rest of the enterprise. It is a CALL CENTER. Remember, call centers are micro-managed. Most that leave find a call center is not for them. The ATL has quality people and majority care about having a good job with a major insurance company. The "incidents" are few and far between....there is a problem in the
ATL - transportation. No enough transportation options. Traffic is huge problem. Otherwise, climate is nice, buildings are nice, people are nice.
The Tempe Hub is a beautiful place to visit, but you wouldn't want to work here. Unless you enjoy 6 months of oppressive 100 degree+ days, horrible traffic and mean, agressive drivers, massive summer dust storms, poor air quality, and dealing with working just across the street from the largest commuter college in the US, Arizona State, with its car, pedestrian, bicyclists, skateboarders, scooter traffic nightmare, then this is the place for you.
Stay right where you are. It's not worth leaving family and friends for a job.
HUBS the general climate is very different from Bloomington which is where I spent the majority of my career. Dallas is okay lots of things to do. But huge population boom has made the cost of houses ridiculously high. If I were younger my husband and I raising our kids would have found Dallas very expensive and would not have been able to sustain our level of living from IL. Now that it's just us. So we are fine. But still house price was serious sticker shock for what you get. Think 300K+ not new house okay footage. But we live in a supposedly good area. Still sticker shock. Property taxes a tad bit higher than Bloomington. Think closer to 2.5 to 2.75%. HOA very active but again high. And lastly homeowners insurance really really high. Cityline is nice though very competitive. I still think TX better than Atlanta any day. I am hearing horrible things from ATL.
Don't do it!
Lol. At my company, someone who worked at the ATL hub said they walked in on 3 people bumpin uglies in the stairwell. Yeah, 3 people.
"Anything else would be fine"
Until you have to re-apply for your job, maybe reapply for it again, and then they decide to just get rid of your job. Then you'll end up in one of those "sweat shop" jobs described here, or without a job at all. Better to be at home than in some HUB city you never really wanted to live in anyway.
I would never recommend moving for this trash. DON'T DO IT.
Cityline is awesome! Wished we would have moved here earlier!!
Your experience at a Hub will depend on the business unit you will work in.
If it is claims, you will be micro managed in a factory-like/call center setting with little hope of getting PTO.
Anything else would be fine.
@To1kFlm-srg: Um, why does gang = black? In my mind gang = criminal activity, which could be perpetrated by any group. Then again, by that measure Leadership could be considered a gang. Or at a minimum should be considered for RICO activities.
The gang thing in ATL is the most ridiculous thing I've heard on here. We get it, you're afraid of black people.
I work in the Atlanta Hub, I mean Atlanta call center.
I absolutely LOVE working in Phoenix
New hires in hubs are very different nowadays compared to years ago. If you are a long-term employee, plan accordingly. Three weeks of orientation on how to read a script, no claim school, poor starting salary, low motivation, atrocious claim handling skills, high turnover, etc. Expect to spend much of your time repairing broken files and spoon-feeding the worthless. Opportunities to post out for other jobs are fiction, because your skills are needed to prop up failing departments. PTO is denied more often than allowed. This is progress???
The Hubs = action and advancement opportunities galore
To my knowledge, there's nothing unique about the work being done in the hubs. It's the same work being done in Bloomington. It's just near a larger city which is SUPPOSED TO make it easier to attract (but not retain) young talent.
Commute times, house prices, etc. come with the territory of larger cities. I've not heard any negative comments about "prison" or "sweatshops" but it's possible. That would sound more like the nature of the work though. That sounds like what's being shared in the PTO thread.
Don't know about OP but being in Proximity we aren't told much about the hubs, other than they are where all the jobs will be in the future. I would be curious about what they are really like too. I understand the basic concept, there are different teams handling stuff by phone, but not even sure if the same functions are done in all 3 hubs + Home Office, or if some stuff is split between only a few places. I don't know what is a good hub job or a bad hub job. Might be nice to know.
I don't have a lot of contact with employees from the hubs. What little I have heard is 3rd hand and a little negative: High turn-over in new employees, alleged gang issues in ATL, and long commutes in ATL. Also, high home prices in Dallas.
We operate in a vacuum out here, get new claims, handle claims, repeat. Any info would be good info...
Why are you hoping to get opinions? Sounds as though you've already gotten some. Do you know the difference between the "hubs" and specific teams or pockets of work. A call center could feel like a sweat shop whether it was located in a hub, Bloomington, or Mayberry.